Bracelet strap



- c. M. BLER 2,180,275

/ BRACELET STRAP Filed June '7, 1938 ATTQRNEYS WITNESS Patented Nov. y14, 1939 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE BRACELET STRAP Claude M. Boler, Topeka, Kans. Application June 7, 1938, Serial No. 212,383

2 Claims.

My invention relates to pliable bracelet straps and more particularly to an improved method and means of securing articles thereto.

One of the principal objects of my invention is to provide a simple and eflicient means of securing articles. i'or instance watches, to pliable bracelet straps and wherein the method employed is inexpensive and permits of the use of pliable bracelet straps of the usual configuration and l0 construction without modifying the same to any large extent.

vAnother object of my invention is to provide a pliable bracelet strap equipped with means for reliably securing a watch or similar article thereto in a manner whereby the watch may be readily detached therefrom and attached thereto as desired.

Other objects and advantages will be apparent from the following description, appended claims and annexed drawing. 4

Referring to the drawing wherein like, reference characters designate like parts throughout the several views: i

Figure 1 is a top plan view of my invention, a section of the bracelet strap being broken away to expose a length of one of my attaching members.

Figure 2 is a bottom plan view illustrating the method of securing the attaching members to bracelet strap 5 of a general configuration and construction for securing a watch 6 to the wrist of a wearer. Said strap comprises inner and outer coextending sections l and 8 respectively adapted to be secured together by the stitching 8 or any other suitable means, for instance cement. One end of the strap 5 has connected thereto a buckle i0 having a tongue Ii for insertion within apertures I2 in the opposite end whereby the strap may be adjusted about the wrist of a wearer and maintained thereon.

Intermediate of the ends the outer sectionv 8 of the strap is formed with a watch supporting area I3 on which is positioned the watch. Said watch is provided with the usual laterally extending attaching brackets I4. On each side of the supporting area I3 the outer section of the strap is formed with groups of slots I5 for a purpose hereinafter set forth.

Attached to the brackets I4 of the watch are folded or intermediate'sectlons I6, folded therearound, of article or watch attaching members Il. Said attaching members are folded transverselyy of the sections I8 to form pairs of coextending outer and inner tongues I8 and I8. The sides of the tongues I8 are recessed to form abutments or laterally extending projections 28 for engagement with the edges or walls defining the slots I5 of the outer section of the strap 5 in a manner hereinafter described.

In securing the watch to the strap 5, the detachable spring bars in the brackets I4 of the watch are inserted through the sections I6, which in turn are inserted through respective slots I5 adjacent the area I3, the tongues I8 vengaging the upper' section of the inner section I and the tongues I8 interwoven through the vremaining slots. When the sections are thus arranged the projections 2.8 formed on the exposed portions of o the tongues I8 engage the walls of the slots and prevent the tongues I8 from being withdrawn from the slotsfthereby locking the tongues to the strap without the use of cement or stitching.

From the foregoing it will be apparent that I have provided a simple and 'eiiicient means whereby watches may be readily attached to and detached from wrist straps and that the method employed lends itself to the use of unskilled labor thereby effecting an economy in assembly in the manufacture of wrist watches.

While I have shown and described my invention in connection with watches, it is to be distinctly understood that other articles such as mounted Jewels, compasses, name plates and the like may be reliably secured to the strap and that the strap attaching members may be constructed of' any desirable material.

What I claim is: y

1. In a strap structure, a strap having connected inner and outer portions, said outer portion fashioned with an article supporting area and fashioned with slots on opposite sides of said area, and article attaching members having folded sections extending away from saidarea, one of said sections of each of said members extending between said portions and the other of said sections interwoven through said slots and provided with abutments engaging the edges defining said slots whereby to maintain said sections in attached condition between said portions.

2. In a strap structure, a strap having coextending longitudinal sections vsecured together, one of said sections fashioned with groups of slots,

with exposed abutments for engaging the edges defining said slots whereby to maintain said; tongues secured between said sections and thereby secure an article attached to said folded end portions therebetween and in attached con- 5 dition on said strap.

CLAUDE M'. BOLER. 

